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Look Hard Enough, You Just Might See the Seeds of Light Amidst the Darkness Surrounding: Where There Is Hope and What Did You Expect Awakening to Look Like?

Posted on August 7, 2013 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and the Value of Popular Culture in Awakening: The Price of Peace Is Inner Sight … Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits Chapter Ten: Where There Is Hope, Cultural Rebirthing Societal Self-Analysis and … Continue reading →

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Hard to Believe, But We’re Getting Saner: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide and the Necessary Mess of Transformation

Posted on August 5, 2013 by sillymickel

The Cycle of All Events, the Evolution of Parenting, and Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One Chapter Nine: Regressions in the Service of Society — Messy Healing There Is a Cycle … Continue reading →

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The Doors of Perception Stormed and The Perinatal Rising: The Primal Screen — A Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life

Posted on March 26, 2013 by sillymickel

The Perinatal Veil: Dangling Above an Abyss and Everyday Rebirthing — The Perinatal Predilections of Everyperson Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Three: Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents—The Primal Screen Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment media, it seems perinatal … Continue reading →

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A Drive to Healing, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and Millennial Promise: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits. Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8

Posted on October 3, 2012 by sillymickel

A Drive to Healing and What Did You Expect Peace to Look Like? Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits A Drive to Healing We cannot expect that everyone will heal their birth traumas when they … Continue reading →

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Better Psychotic Than Warring: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide – Peace Is Painful

Posted on September 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Ending War and Humanicide—Peace Is Worth its Price of Suffering: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Five—Better “Emotionally Disturbed” Than “Healthily” Fighting in War Walking In Another’s Moccasins It is obvious that these Sixties youth did not have the same unflinching and unqualified … Continue reading →

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Rebirthing Rituals, Part Three – Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One

Posted on September 17, 2012 by sillymickel

People Who Have It All Figured Out Are the Ones to Watch Out For … Emotional “Sickness” Might Indicate More “Wellness”: Rebirthing Rituals, Part 3 Regression in the Service of the Ego With the exposure of the ineffectiveness of the … Continue reading →

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Profound Sculpting of Who We Are Occurs at a Time We Cannot See: The 21st Century and Its Discontents … The View From Everyday

Posted on September 10, 2012 by sillymickel

Dangling Above an Abyss and Everyday Rebirthing: The Perinatal Is Rising … The Doors of Perception—Stormed! Dangling Above the Abyss and Perinatal Aliens, Pretty Much Dangling Above an Abyss and Pervasive Perinatal Aliens Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment … Continue reading →

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Rock Concert Rebirthing, Mosh Wombs, and the Doors of Perception…Stormed: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 2

Posted on April 14, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Two: Fleshy Mosh Wombs, Rock Rebirthing, Trolls, and the Doors of Perception…Stormed The Perinatal Veil: Rock Concerts (For some, ditto) Lawson has also described perinatal elements in rock concerts. [Footnote 1] Mosh Wombs Keep in … Continue reading →

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Dangling Above the Abyss and Perinatal Aliens, Pretty Much: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 1

Posted on April 9, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part One: Dangling Above an Abyss and Pervasive Perinatal Aliens Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment media, it seems perinatal themes and elements are showing up everywhere else in our surrounding environment and culture. The … Continue reading →